Bartolo--We'll look for you to-morrow, if you are better.
Count--I'll see you soon, Basilio.
Basilio [aside]--Devil take it if I understand all this! And if it weren't for this purse--
All--Good-night, Basilio, good-night.
Basilio [going]--Very well, then; good-night, good-night.
[The others, all laughing, push him civilly out of the room.]
FROM 'THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO'
OUTWITTING A HUSBAND
[The scene is the boudoir of young Countess Almaviva, the Rosina of the previous selection. She is seated alone, when her clever maid Susanna ushers in the young page Cherubino, just banished from the house because obnoxious to the jealous Count.]